Medicare news and information

It's different this time. That's what the bulls say when stock prices soar as a way of discounting warnings that what goes up must always come down.
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Falling closely in line with the Obama administration's analysis last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the policies in President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal would reduce Medicare spending by about $364 billion over 10 years, compared with the...
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Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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The GAO reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
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Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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The CMS Innovation Center will apply a more focused approach for the second round of the healthcare reform law's Health Care Innovation Awards that the agency announced Wednesday.
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Congressional Budget Office analysts sharply lowered their projections for the next decade's outlays on Medicare, Medicaid and covering the uninsured under the healthcare reform law.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus opened the panel's first hearing in six years on Medicare physician pay with assertive rhetoric about scrapping the hated sustainable growth-rate formula this year. .
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A new study is questioning the benefits of dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.
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